Category: Covers
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Acid Sesame
Sesame Street was always a little surreal and psychedelic early on, but did Sesame Street have a tripped out LSD for kids episode in 1969? Reason I ask is I’ve just found in the first series they covered The Beatles ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ which despite the band’s protestations is definitely lysergic. According…
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Boing Jean is Not My Doorstop
Seen this doing the rounds, I avoid viral stuff because it’s usually all kind of dumb, but this is really funny and well made. Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean accompanied only with samples from a spring door stopper! At last something worthy of a ‘viral lift’ or whatever those evil marketing tossers say nowadays…
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Pachelbel pwns the world
When comes to Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor it’s easier to say which songs WEREN’T influenced by it…Streets of London, Let It Be, Go West, I Should Be So Lucky (which I think rips another classical piece too), Don’t Look Back In Anger, Puff The Magic Dragon, No Woman No Cry, Men At Work –…
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You use up everything you got trying to give everybody what they want
Never knew Nina Simone covered ‘Where Does The Time Go?’, heard this through the haunting Nils Frahm’s Late Night Tales, at last a mix that does express that 3am dark night of the soul hinted- but also love the classic preamble: “We are recording tonight and because we are recording we are trying to do…
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Say my name
Wow – amazing version of Say My Name by Ólafur Arnalds, Arnór Dan & Douglas Dare – how did I not hear this before? Heard it via Ólafur’s Late Night Tales, which is well worth checking out.
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Covers covers covers
Via Ian Fondue posting the video of Art vs Science’s fascinating psych/funk version of Enter Sandman by the (below) which mixes vocoder with great psych guitar, I started listening to Triple J’s Like A Version, and found this fascinating trip hop cover version of Bitter Sweet Symphony by E^ST above…with a wonderful surprise at the…